text: On a brilliantly clear autumn day more than 13 years ago, Boulder District Attorney Alex Hunter stepped to the podium before an anxious media horde to announce that the grand jury investigation into the death of JonBenet Ramsey had come to an end. "I and my prosecution task force believe we do not have sufficient evidence to warrant a filing of charges against anyone who has been investigated at this time," Hunter told the reporters assembled outside the Boulder County Justice Center on Oct. 13, 1999. Yet multiple sources, including members of the grand jury, have now confirmed to the Daily Camera what Hunter did not say that day: The grand jury voted to indict both John and Patsy Ramsey on charges of child abuse resulting in death in connection with the events of Christmas night 1996 — but Hunter refused to sign the indictment, believing he could not prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt. One legal expert, however, believes Colorado law may have obligated Hunter to at least sign the indictment, even if he elected not to prosecute the case. "We didn't know who did what," one juror told the Camera, "but we felt the adults in the house may have done something that they certainly could have prevented, or they could have helped her, and they didn't." Boulder attorney Bryan Morgan, who represented John Ramsey through the conclusion of the grand jury process, said Saturday, "If what you report actually happened, then there were some very professional and brave people in Alex's office and perhaps elsewhere whose discipline and training prevented a gross miscarriage of justice." Former Boulder First Assistant District Attorney Bill Wise was among those confirming the jury's vote. "It names both of them, John and Patsy Ramsey," said Wise, who was Hunter's top assistant for 28 years but did not participate in the grand jury process. Child abuse resulting in death, when charged as "knowingly or recklessly," is a Class II felony that carries a potential sentence of four to 48 years in prison. The statute of limitations on that charge in Colorado is three years from the date of the crime. Legal experts are unsure whether Hunter's decision not to sign the indictment agrees with Colorado grand jury law. In an email, University of Colorado Law School professor Mimi Wesson, who has followed the Ramsey case over the years, wrote, "The Colorado statute governing grand jury practice says … that '(e)very indictment shall be signed' by the foreman of the grand jury and the prosecuting attorney." In the event that the grand jury voted to indict on charges that Hunter did not believe he could prove at trial, Wesson said it is her opinion that proper legal procedure would have been to sign the document, file it with the court and then move in open court to dismiss the charges. "That would be the more transparent and responsible course, in my opinion," Wesson wrote. Hunter, who left office in 2001 after 28 years as Boulder County's district attorney, declined to discuss the grand jury's actions, but he did issue the following statement last week via email: "Colorado statutes, the ethical canons which govern the practice of law, and the Boulder District Court's oaths, instructions and orders in the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury proceedings, are well established and absolutely clear with respect to the various participants' legal obligations, duties and responsibilities, including the inviolate secrecy of the proceedings and the differing burdens of proof applicable to jurors and prosecutors. "As the duly elected district attorney at the time and as an officer of the court then and now, I must respectfully decline further comment." Boulder police Chief Mark Beckner also would not discuss the Ramsey grand jury. "I'm sworn in, and I can't say anything about the grand jury," Beckner said. "I would be violating my oath of secrecy and I can't do that." Denver criminal defense lawyer and legal analyst Dan Recht pointed out that the standard of proof for a grand jury to indict, which is probable cause, is a far lower threshold than what Hunter would have had to meet at trial. "It couldn't be more different in a jury trial," Recht added. "So what Alex Hunter was thinking about was, 'But can I prove this beyond a reasonable doubt?' Because that's the burden that the prosecution has at a trial. So he seemingly decided, 'I am not going to be able to prove this child abuse resulting in death beyond a reasonable doubt to a jury.'" 'Somebody did something pretty horrible' Jurors confirming the vote to the Camera — who agreed to talk only on the condition of anonymity — nevertheless acknowledged continuing uncertainty about what really went on in the middle of the night in the house at what was then known as 755 15th St., and is now 749 15th St. "It's still unresolved," one juror said. "Somebody did something pretty horrible that wasn't punished. "I'm not saying that I am at peace. But I had sympathy with his (Hunter's) decision. I could see the problem that he was in. I could understand what he was doing." The Ramseys and their now-adult son Burke were exonerated in the case in July 2008 by then-District Attorney Mary Lacy, based on updated analysis of DNA samples from JonBenet's clothing — although numerous prosecutors labeled her doing so as both unusual and questionable. Former Ramsey attorney Morgan, however, said, "In the intervening years, the techniques for retrieving and testing DNA improved to the point where it conclusively demonstrated the Ramseys' innocence. " Still, one juror who spoke with the Camera expressed a feeling of still not being completely reconciled with Hunter's decision. But the juror added that, perceiving that it would be a difficult case to try, Hunter's declining to sign the indictment, also known as a true bill, was understandable. And, the juror said, "I think I did believe that they would get more evidence and figure out who did it." Another grand juror who confirmed the vote said, "I think I have conquered the feeling of any acute frustration. "This is what we thought, and that's what you (the prosecutors) asked us for, and that's what we gave you, our opinion," the juror added. "That was our job, and the rest of the legal procedure, they just do with it what has to be done." Several grand jurors declined to comment on their vote. One, in doing so, said, "Our job was to try to come up with, to help solve, this crime. "It has not been solved yet, and we are still under oath to keep silent and I would like to honor that. And I still have all the hope that, in the coming years, this crime will be solved properly." 'Not enough evidence to file' Because under Colorado law grand jury proceedings are secret, and those participating in the process are sworn to uphold that secrecy, few directly involved would discuss the case on the record. Several agreed to talk, although not all did so for attribution. Wise did not participate directly in the grand jury proceedings. But he learned of the results after its conclusion, and he defends Hunter's decision not to press forward with a prosecution. "I absolutely do" believe Hunter made the right decision, said Wise, who is now retired. "And I thought it was a pretty courageous decision, because I know about the public pressure that was being put on everybody who was involved — but particularly the elected district attorney." Bob Grant at that time was the district attorney for neighboring Adams County. Grant was among a small group of local prosecutors with whom Hunter met monthly. He used those colleagues as advisers throughout the case, which drew rapt attention from an international audience, spawned more than a dozen books and a television movie, and has ultimately proved to be one of the nation's most enduring criminal mysteries. "It is a case that has stuck with me for decades now because no one has been held accountable for the murder of a young child," Grant said in a recent interview. Grant would not confirm or deny the grand jury's actions, citing the secrecy rules. However, Grant said, "Had there been a question of whether to sign a document or not, I would have been among those advising not to indict, because I did not believe there was a winnable case based on the evidence at that time." Wise said that those advising Hunter were not all of one mind when the decision was made. "I would say there was not unanimity, or a unanimous decision, by anyone," Wise said. "I know of at least one, and possibly two (prosecutors), who felt it should have been filed, period, end of discussion. And I know of at least two, if not more than two, probably four, that thought there was not enough evidence to file." Juror: Process was 'traumatic' The grand jury process is predicated on a veil of secrecy such that Hunter, in his news conference at its conclusion, said, "Under no circumstances will I or any of my advisers, prosecutors, the law enforcement officers working on this case or the grand jurors discuss grand jury proceedings today or ever, unless ordered by the court." The grand jurors who have nevertheless now spoken about their Ramsey experience take pride in their service to the judicial system. "I actually believe that I did a good job with being able to pay attention to the actual evidence that was said," one juror said of the grand jury experience. "I didn't go in there with my mind made up, one way or the other." That juror talked about being bothered by seeing a disparity between what was presented as evidence and what was being reported outside the courthouse by insatiable media. Jurors even in routine cases are typically cautioned to avoid media coverage, and the juror said that was the case for the Ramsey grand jury — but only at first. "At the beginning, they said, 'Don't look at the media.' But this was a year-and-a-half we were doing this, so some time not long after the beginning, they said, 'We really can't ask you not to look at the media. There is too much stuff going on.'" And so, the juror said, "The instructions sort of changed to, 'What you need to pay attention to is what's said in this room. You've already seen how much out there is not true. Pay attention to what is said inside this room because this is evidence we can back up. And things that are said outside aren't that way.' They expected us to be grownups about it, if you will." While speculation was rampant outside the Boulder County Justice Center about what might be going on in the grand jury room, for the eight women and four men deciding the case, the work was both sobering and draining. "It was pretty traumatic," a juror said. "It was a horrible event, and to really have to delve into all of the evidence and know what happened and get details was difficult. "The reality is it was a horrible thing, and I didn't have the luxury of picking and choosing what I would pay attention to. I needed to know what happened in every detail, so it was difficult. So many people had been traumatized by this, and hurt, and scared." Another juror commented on fears that family members might "disown" the juror over that juror's refusal to discuss the ongoing work with relatives. But that juror was honored to be part of the process. "I thought, and believe, that they were presenting all of the relevant information we needed to make a decision like that, and that's all we did," said the juror. As for Hunter's decision not to go forward with a prosecution, the juror said, "That's the way it goes. I don't have any thoughts on what should or should not have been done. "That's why we, the people, put him there. Alex Hunter was, and is, a very, very intelligent person. It was interesting, and rewarding, being part of the legal justice system." Wise, Hunter's former top assistant, defended the ultimate decision not to press forward, in part because prosecution would have been difficult with two defendants. "When you have a true bill that says two people were involved, but it doesn't say what the involvement of the people was, all a good defense attorney has to do is to separate their trials … and, all of a sudden, you've got nothing," Wise said. "You're operating under the theory that two people might have been responsible for the death … and when you separate them, you don't know which of the two people was responsible for what. And so I thought it was the right decision." More recently, Boulder prosecutors were successful in prosecuting a high-profile child abuse resulting in death case; Alex and Molly Midyette, of Louisville, were indicted by a grand jury and tried in the death of their infant son Jason, who died in 2006. Both were convicted, although Alex Midyette was found guilty of the lesser charge of "criminally negligent" child abuse, which is a Class III felony. Wise acknowledged that in Hunter's time in office, felony trials were not routinely pursued, and rarely did one go forward if the evidence was shaky. "Absolutely," Wise said. "That is the way we operated in that office for years and years and years. "We never steamrolled ahead on a case that has less than adequate evidence, to at least have a feeling that you can get a conviction. If that feeling didn't exist, we didn't file the case. We never steamrolled a case." Ramsey case forever unresolved? With Lacy's exoneration of the Ramseys and their son, Burke, in 2008, and the news now that a grand jury in 1999 determined that both parents should face charges, plus the false arrest in 2006 of a confessed intruder suspect, John Mark Karr, and death that same year of Patsy Ramsey, a key witness no matter who the defendant, a case that has seemed star-crossed from the first day might appear farther than ever from seeing a firm resolution. Current Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, upon taking office for his first term in January 2009, announced he was returning the Ramsey case — which Lacy had taken over from the police department — back to the police. And it is with the Boulder Police Department that the Ramsey case now resides. "The Boulder police are in charge of the investigation, and if the state of the evidence changes to where charges can be filed consistent with Colorado ethical standards for prosecution, I will do so and will say whatever I have to say about this case on the record and in open court," Garnett said recently. "I will have no comment otherwise about the state of the evidence." Referring to Lacy's exoneration of the Ramseys, Garnett said, "As I have said before, the exoneration speaks for itself. But all that matters to me as district attorney is the evidence, and where it leads. We'll follow the evidence wherever it leads us." Wise and Grant both question the validity of Lacy's exoneration, and they say Garnett — and his successors — are not bound by it. "It's more inappropriate than anything else," Grant said. "It's not a prosecutorial duty to exonerate people. It's a prosecutorial duty to seek justice and to prosecute the bad guys. If you don't have a bad guy to prosecute, don't exonerate people who are at least peripherally under suspicion. I didn't think it was appropriate at all." Many observers, taking note of the many problems and conflicts that have plagued the case over the years, have theorized that it could now never successfully be prosecuted, short of a confession backed by corroborating DNA evidence. But Garnett rules nothing out. "In my first term, we made cold case prosecution a priority," Garnett said, "and in Ryan Brackley, I have one of the best cold case prosecutors in the United States on my staff. Certainly, the Ramsey case is one of the cold cases we would take great satisfaction in solving and filing and pursuing in court." A juror, reflecting on the grand jury experience, and Hunter's decision not to prosecute the indictment, emphasized that the entire matter has long been out of the jurors' hands. "I believe and feel our effort was well executed, the results of which were, as they say, pro bono publico, for the public good," the juror said. "You say, 'Our job was well done, we gave them an opinion.' What happened after that, we went through all that and you find out that the bottom line was the district attorney felt there wasn't enough evidence to proceed with any further effort in this regard. "Can he do that? Yes, he most certainly can." Contact Camera Staff Writer Charlie Brennan at 303-473-1327 or email@example.com.


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I like lamb, it is one of my favorite meats. Whether in a soup or in any other form, if a dish has lamb in it I just have to try it. Whether it's those superb Slow Roasted Lamb Chops at Mike's Bistro or the Lamb Soup at Yummy Grill, SYR and I – hardcore carnivores both – are in total agreement that lamb is in a class of its own, we love it!
Recently, while going over some old papers I found cooking notes by my long departed mother in them the following recipe:
Lamb Soup
Yields 4
- 5 1/2 ounces lean tender lamb
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 5 cups chicken soup
- 1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
- 2 inch piece lemongrass, sliced into very thin rounds
- 1/4 teaspoon chili paste (I make my own from a recipe I found online, here)
- 8 cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 4 scallions, finely sliced
- 1 3/4 ounces bean sprouts snapped in half
- 2 tablespoons cilantro leaves
- 1 tablespoonolive oil.
- Trim away all the fat from the lamb and slice it thinly. Cut slices into bite sized pieces. Put the meat in a layer on a plate and sprinkle with the garlic and 1 tablespoon soy sauce. Cover it and let marinate for one hour.
- In a saucepan bring the chicken stock, ginger, lemongrass, remaining soy sauce and the chili paste. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
- When ready to serve the soup, drop the tomatoes, scallions, bean sprouts and cilantro leaves into the stock.
- Heat oil in a skillet, add the lamb and marinade. Strir fry the meat until is no longer red and divide among the 4 bowls.
- Add the hot soup to each bowl and serve immediately.


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There is a delicious article in the Foreign Policy magazine by Michael Moynihan which highlights the lengths to which people will go to assuage their ideological positions.
So who defends food rationing? Travel guidebooks who are trying to find an ideologically sympathetic explanation for the failure of leftist and/or anti-American regimes to provide basic needs to their people – an excerpt:
… Cubans don't just walk; they glide, sauntering rhythmically through the timeworn streets like dancers shaking their asses to the syncopated beat of the rumba. Maybe the secret is in the food rationing.
The article highlights the two top-selling travel guidebooks — named Lonely Planet and Rough Guides — who engage in this type of propaganda. But we know its not limited to them, I found an example of a similar technique back in a 2010 New York Times article. By the way, how most governments handle "timeworn streets" is to repair them.
Western societies have come to view the use of burqas as symbolizing women's lack of freedom in Muslim societies. Not to the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides – another excerpt:
The burqa can be seen as a tool to increase mobility and security, a nuance often missed in the outside world's image of the garment. Assuming that a burqa-clad woman is not empowered and in need of liberation is a naïve construct.
Moynihan on the formula used by the Lonely Planet and Rough Guides guidebooks:
… a pro forma acknowledgment of a lack of democracy and freedom followed by exercises in moral equivalence … contorted attempts to contextualize authoritarianism and scorching attacks on the U.S. foreign policy that precipitated these defensive and desperate actions. … economic backwardness viewed as cultural authenticity, not to mention an admirable rejection of globalization and American hegemony. The hotel recommendations might be useful, but the guidebooks are clotted with historical revisionism, factual errors, and a toxic combination of Orientalism and pathological self-loathing.
The Moynihan article is copied in full at end of post.
Leftist Planet
Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?
In 1933, as Joseph Stalin was busy purging his enemies and building a murderous cult of personality, the New York-based left-wing magazine the Nation advised readers interested in traveling to Moscow that Intourist, the Soviet Union's official travel agency, employed as tour guides "very interesting and attractive young women without hats," skilled in correcting misinformation spread by the capitalist media. Although the hatless apparatchiks from Intourist limited sightseeing to approved destinations — Ukraine, at the apogee of its brutal famine, was off-limits — they were nevertheless adept at obtaining "special permits" from the predecessor of the KGB, which, the Nation noted, "far from being a band of terrorist police, is an extremely able and intelligent organization, always glad to help tourists."
Even long after Stalin's crimes were revealed in Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 secret speech, the migratory "fellow traveler" persisted, shuffling between failed utopias and dropping in at model collective farms and labor camps. During the Cold War, this sort of ideological tourism was almost exclusively a progressive domain; the sugar-cane plantations of Cuba heaved with vacationing European and American compañeros, but few free market acolytes turned up in Augusto Pinochet's Chile to witness pension privatization or marvel at his market liberalization program. Even in the Soviet Union's final days, Hungarian-American academic Paul Hollander noted, a number of companies still offered educational trips to Cuba, Vietnam, Grenada, and Nicaragua. And years after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, ideological dead-enders could still join expensive "reality tours" of Fidel Castro's Cuba or Hugo Chávez's Venezuela.
These days, the young and progressive book travel online, eschewing tour groups and specialized travel agents. This leaves the task of a travelers' political education to guidebook empires like Lonely Planet and Rough Guides, both of which — while offering what Lonely Planet calls "honest and objective" advice on where to find the perfect pisco sour in Peru or that slice of beach paradise in Cambodia — provide detailed, polemical asides on the political history and culture of the countries under review.
Lonely Planet was started in 1975, when the British hippie husband-and-wife team Maureen and Tony Wheeler self-published a guide to cheap travel in Southeast Asia. Mark Ellingham, also British, founded the competing Rough Guides in 1982 after finding existing guidebooks too thin on the "politics and contemporary life" of travel destinations. Both companies have been astoundingly successful. Rough Guides has sold more than 30 million books over the last 25 years, transforming itself from a publisher of travel guides into a global business empire, producing television programs, music albums, and dozens of other titles (like The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories). In 2010, Lonely Planet, now wholly owned by BBC Worldwide, sold its 100-millionth book. It too has branched into television, radio, and magazines.
Both guidebook empires have also made their founders very rich — Lonely Planet was sold for well over $100 million — though this has induced a certain amount of introspection. Lonely Planet's Wheeler now says he feels guilty about traveling because of the airline industry's contribution to global warming. And Ellingham, who has published The Rough Guide to Climate Change, says his business "must encourage travellers to travel less." They may be wealthy, making their money off an industry that's causing grievous harm to the Earth, but they certainly haven't left their liberal politics behind.
TO ESTABLISH THE quality of the political education they're serving up to a new generation of travelers, it's useful to begin by skimming their guidebooks for undemocratic countries like Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria.
There's a formula to them: a pro forma acknowledgment of a lack of democracy and freedom followed by exercises in moral equivalence, various contorted attempts to contextualize authoritarianism or atrocities, and scorching attacks on the U.S. foreign policy that precipitated these defensive and desperate actions. Throughout, there is the consistent refrain that economic backwardness should be viewed as cultural authenticity, not to mention an admirable rejection of globalization and American hegemony. The hotel recommendations might be useful, but the guidebooks are clotted with historical revisionism, factual errors, and a toxic combination of Orientalism and pathological self-loathing.
For instance, readers of Lonely Planet: Libya — published before the recent unpleasantness — are told that Libya's murderous dictator, Muammar al-Qaddafi, was likely framed for the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. In fact, the book relates, "One of the most credible theories was that the bombing had been ordered by Iran in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iran Air airbus by a US warship in the Persian Gulf on 3 July 1988." Qaddafi is cast as a misunderstood figure ("A recurring theme throughout Colonel Qaddafi's rule has been his desire for unity with other states, all to no avail"), unfairly maligned by Western governments ("ordinary Libyans suffered [under sanctions] and the world rebuffed repeated Libyan offers to hand over the Lockerbie suspects for trial"), and the victim of media unfairness ("Western reporters, keen for any opportunity to trivialise the eccentricities of Libya under Qaddafi, referred to [his bodyguards] as the 'Amazon Women'").
It's not just the wacky colonel who got the benefit of the doubt. Has the media convinced you that the burqa is an instrument of oppression? Lonely Planet: Afghanistan, in a rare bit of what appears to be Taliban nostalgia, explains: "The burqa can be seen as a tool to increase mobility and security, a nuance often missed in the outside world's image of the garment. Assuming that a burqa-clad woman is not empowered and in need of liberation is a naïve construct."
Western media outlets have misinformed us on Iran as well. Lonely Planet: Iran assures travelers to the Islamic Republic that "99% of Iranians — and perhaps even [President] Ahmadinejad himself" aren't interested in a nuclear conflict with Israel. In fact, ignore all the hyperventilating about nuclear weapons, because it's "hard to argue with" Iran's claim that its uranium-enrichment program exists only for peaceful purposes.
The West's misreading of Cuba is an old staple for this crowd, and a new generation of lefty guidebooks doesn't fail to disappoint on this score. The Rough Guide to Cuba, for example, even has a kind word for the draconian censorship implemented by the Castro regime, lecturing us that it's "geared to producing (what the government deems to be) socially valuable content, refreshingly free of any significant concern for high ratings and commercial success." Sure, the guidebook says, one can read dissident bloggers like Yoani Sánchez, but beware that opponents of the regime can be "paranoid and bitter" and are "at their best when commenting on the minutiae of Cuban life [and] at their worst when giving vent to unfocused diatribes against the government."
We've also apparently got it all wrong when it comes to Cuba's notorious Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), a Stasi-like network of neighborhood-level informers that monitors and informs on troublesome dissidents like Sánchez. Lonely Planet: Cuba thankfully assures tourists that the group is, in fact, a benign civic organization: The CDR are "neighborhood-watch bodies originally formed in 1960 to consolidate grassroots support for the revolution [and] they now play a decisive role in health, education, social, recycling and voluntary labor campaigns."
WHY ALL THE bending over backward to excuse the world's most thuggish regimes? For the guidebook writer, as well as the starry-eyed travelers who buy them, there is no characteristic more desirable in foreign travel than "authenticity" — places uncorrupted by the hideousness of Western corporate advertising and global brands-and many of these pariah states are the only destinations that offer it. Lonely Planet enthuses that Cuba is "a country devoid of gaudy advertising," possessing a "uniqueness [that] is a vanishing commodity in an increasingly globalized world." Indeed, the dictatorship protects its citizens from the poison of consumerism in a manner other states might want to emulate:
Almost completely cut off from the maw of McDonald's, Madonna and other global corporate-cultural influences, Cuba retains a refreshing preserved quality. It's a space and place that serves as a beacon for the future — universal education, health care and housing are rights people the world over want, need and deserve.
Writing in the Ecologist, a venerable British environmentalist journal, Brendan Sainsbury, co-author of Lonely Planet: Cuba, contends that there is purity in Cuban penury:
Falling into step alongside pallid, overweight and uncoordinated Western wannabes out on two-week vacations from Prozac and junk food, the Cubans don't just walk; they glide, sauntering rhythmically through the timeworn streets like dancers shaking their asses to the syncopated beat of the rumba. Maybe the secret is in the food rationing.
THERE IS AN almost Orientalist presumption that the citizens of places like Cuba or Afghanistan have made a choice in rejecting globalization and consumerism. From the perspective of the disaffected Westerner, poverty is seen as enviable, a pure existence unsullied by capitalism. Sainsbury refers to Cuban food as "organic" and praises the Castro brothers' "intellectual foresight [that] has prompted such eco-friendly practices as nutrient recycling, soil and water management and land-use planning." Meager food rations and the 1950s cars that plod through Havana's streets, however, don't represent authenticity or some tropical version of the Western mania for "artisanal" products, but, rather, failed economic policy. It's as much of a lifestyle choice as female circumcision is in Sudan.
At the same time, formerly totalitarian countries that have undergone market reforms and economic growth are often upbraided by guidebook writers for betraying their revolutionary ideals. As living standards rise in Asia, the authentic travel experience is harder to come by. Writing on the Rough Guides website a few years ago, Ron Emmons, co-author of The Rough Guide to Vietnam, expressed his disappointment at the diminished power of the communist economy in Hanoi, sighing that his "first impression of Vietnam was a Pepsi advert splashed across the side of a shuttle bus. After centuries of valiantly fighting off invaders by land, sea and air, Vietnam had finally succumbed to western influences."
Even more surprising is the existence of guidebooks for walled-off North Korea, where government chaperones hover over every aspect of a traveler's itinerary. Lonely Planet, which offers a small section on the Hermit Kingdom in its South Korea book, saw in the late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (who routinely announced his intention to engulf Seoul in a "sea of fire") a "pragmatism and relative openness to change." And Bradt, a British publisher that offers the only dedicated English-language tourists' guide to North Korea, positively effuses about the desolate, gray capital of Pyongyang as "a city without parallel in Korea, or Asia."
In sunlight, the streets and squares, without a fleck of dust, can literally dazzle.… Pyongyang reputedly has 58m2 of green belt per citizen — four times the amount prescribed by the United Nations, and in spring its hills heave with green.
Perhaps it's no surprise then that Bradt also has a unique take on North Korea's successful quest for nuclear weapons at a time when millions of its people were starving: "The most common arguments in the Western media are that the aggressive little dictatorship sought all along to build a nuke and use it as a bargaining chip for more aid — which sidesteps the fact that the DPRK was being threatened by a nuclear mega power with which, someway by mutual consent, it was not at peace." Regardless, there is little cause for concern, according to Bradt, because the "allegations about the uranium enrichment" are most likely a figment of overheated American imagination, from the same people who "cooked up the WMD intel against Iraq."
SO WHAT GIVES? The travel-guidebook writers employed by publishers like Lonely Planet and Rough Guides aren't "cleanskins," dropped into a country and instructed to familiarize themselves with the local culture and report back their findings, but rather professional travelers, enamored of the places they're tasked with cataloging. (Well, except Thomas Kohnstamm, perhaps, who admitted in 2008 that he had written Lonely Planet: Colombia without having ever set foot in the country. He was, however, dating "an intern in the Colombian Consulate.") These besotted individuals possess a remarkable ability to be forgiving of those they love, and scathing about those they hate. While Rough Guides enthuses about Cuba's health-care system and equivocates about Havana's totalitarian government, it has no problem defining American culture as a "combination of a shoot-from-the-hip mentality with laissez-faire capitalism and religious fervor [that] can make the USA maddening at times." One could see this sort of knee-jerk leftism as archaically charming, if it weren't so insidious.
After all, beyond tacitly endorsing the countries they visit, tourists also pour money into them. Take Lonely Planet's guide to Burma, a country that languished for almost four decades under a military junta known for imprisoning thousands of dissidents and leaving millions of citizens in poverty. In 2008, Britain's Trades Union Congress (TUC), which represents 6 million British workers, threatened a boycott of Lonely Planet if it didn't withdraw its Burma edition; according to the TUC's petition, the book sent a "strong message of validation to the brutal military regime" by encouraging tourists to visit. Lonely Planet pointed out that the guide warned readers of the ethical dilemma by noting that forced labor was used to develop tourist sites and that "activists claim that tourism dollars help directly fuel government repression." But it refused to pull the guide. With the Burmese junta now relaxing its grip on power and Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist Aung San Suu Kyi encouraging tourism again, Rough Guides, which said in 2008 that it felt "wrong" to publish a Burma edition, is currently reconsidering.
The problem with guidebooks to countries like Cuba, Iran, and North Korea is not that they encourage travel to rogue regimes (the American travel ban to Cuba and the lack of tourism in North Korea have done little to unseat either government), but that they consistently misinform tourists about the exact nature of those countries. The solution isn't to stop traveling, but to travel wisely, not mistaking grinding poverty for cultural authenticity or confusing dictatorship with a courageous rejection of globalization.
So go to Cuba. Try to get that visa to North Korea. Visit the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Just make sure to throw your Lonely Planet and Rough Guides in the trash before you do.


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No time for Packers to be complacent after failed season
BOB McGINN | Grades: TEAM | OFFENSE | DEFENSE | SPECIAL TEAMS
Green Bay — It's one thing to be confident. It's another to be smug.
Listening to Mike McCarthy, Aaron Rodgers and others last week, it would appear as if the Green Bay Packers think they can just roll the balls out next season and be a prime contender for the Super Bowl.
All this stuff about finishing strong and overcoming adversity has to stop.
The Packers didn't finish strong. They were on their home field in their kind of weather and in ideal position to beat a powerful foe in the playoff opener. Then they blew it in the last six minutes.
They also didn't overcome adversity. The Packers lose their starting quarterback for the first time in 21 years and are proud of going 2-5-1 against a soft schedule (five at home) without him?
Let's be clear about something else. The NFC North championship was more about the Detroit Lions pulling a colossal fold than the Green Bay Packers doing anything wonderful.
From the sound of things, the Packers — aside from a tweak here and a tweak there — plan to keep on operating the way they always have under Ted Thompson, Mike McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers.
In case they missed it, pro football has moved on since the Packers' lone Super Bowl in their eight seasons as partners.
While the Packers were beating the Joe Webb-quarterbacked Vikings for their only postseason triumph since the 45th Super Bowl, NFC upstarts Seattle, Carolina and San Francisco — a combined 15-33 in 2010 when Green Bay was winning it all — drafted dynamic quarterbacks and made vast improvements to marginal defenses.
It might have been a terrible year in the division, but that doesn't mean it's going to stay that way.
The Vikings panicked and missed on Christian Ponder, but with the No. 8 pick in the draft they'll probably be right back in the quarterback hunt. If the Vikings find the next Russell Wilson, Cam Newton or Colin Kaepernick, they have more than enough good young players to be right back in the division race next season and beyond.
Ill-tempered and arrogant Jim Schwartz, whose teams were always undisciplined, did get the Lions out of jail. Whoever the next coach is would be a better choice than Schwartz to erase the stench of that 1-6 finish.
And aggressive general manager Phil Emery, already having built a formidable offense, will be using every means at his disposal in an attempt to rebuild the broken defense in Chicago.
Meanwhile, in Green Bay, McCarthy on Wednesday talked about what might have been in 2013 and, as his quarterback did a day earlier, a championship window they don't foresee closing any time soon.
The Packers could forget how fortunate they were that the Lions self-destructed and bask in their third straight NFC North crown and fifth straight playoff berth.
The T-shirts around town say division champs, baby. How can you argue with success?
Or the Packers can take a long look at themselves, admit to their many shortcomings and failings and come back as a more vibrant organization under old standbys Thompson, McCarthy, Rodgers and Dom Capers.
None of those four men has any reason to feel good about the recent past.
Thompson has made his share of outstanding picks in the draft. It's his area of expertise, and his drafting record over the years is better than the norm.
Last year, Thompson went blithely along with McCarthy on the idea that Graham Harrell and B.J. Coleman were capable backups when everyone in America knew that they weren't. Given Vince Young's mental limitations, his signing Aug. 5 made no sense, either.
If Thompson hadn't dawdled for a week before bringing back Matt Flynn, the Packers might have gone 2-0 against the Giants and Vikings instead of 0-1-1.
Thompson made another mistake when he didn't sign another center after Greg Van Roten was done for the season Sept. 30. When Evan Dietrich-Smith couldn't play an entire game, at least two changes in the line had to be made and the offense fell apart against the Eagles and Lions.
A secret to the Packers' continued success has been their ability to identify core players early and sign them to slightly below-market contracts. Thompson's decision to give Morgan Burnett a big-money extension in mid-July and then watch him perform like a free agent should have rocked the franchise's draft-and-develop model.
As good as the Packers have been acquiring extra draft picks, there usually aren't enough of them to close all the holes. The safety position in Green Bay the past two years is a perfect example.
Thompson's aversion to veteran acquisition, whether through unrestricted free agency, street free agency or trade, must end for the Packers to hang with the top teams.
John Schneider, Dave Gettleman and Trent Baalke, the personnel-oriented GMs in Seattle, Carolina and San Francisco, have their teams among the final four in the NFC partly because of their veteran additions.
In the trades of 2013, look what Anquan Boldin did for the 49ers, what Alex Smith did for the Chiefs, what LeGarrette Blount did for the Patriots, what Jerry Hughes (10 sacks) did for the Bills, what Carson Palmer did for the Cardinals and what Jon Beason did for the Giants.
In free agency, some of the wise signings on offense were tight end Martellus Bennett by the Bears, guards Louis Vasquez by the Broncos and Matt Slauson by the Bears, and running back Danny Woodhead by the Chargers.
The list on defense includes ends Michael Bennett by the Seahawks and Mike DeVito by the Chiefs, nose tackle Glenn Dorsey by the 49ers, inside linebacker Karlos Dansby by the Cardinals, outside linebacker John Abraham by the Cardinals, cornerback Keenan Lewis by the Saints, safety Glover Quin by the Lions, kicker Phil Dawson by the 49ers and receiver-returner Ted Ginn Jr. by the Panthers.
Green Bay's only signing was Matthew Mulligan.
"They have no pro department up there," an executive in personnel said. "Ted does some good things in drafting but they don't do (expletive) in personnel.
"Ted has shut it down lately. They've gone stone cold. They have not been utilizing all the markets. Now it's caught up to him."
If Thompson trusts himself, pro personnel director Eliot Wolf and others in the building, he'll resume activity in free agency and seek bargain-priced or market-priced veterans to augment the draft.
As one scout put it, "You start at 8-8 when you have a franchise quarterback."
McCarthy deserves a degree of credit for developing Rodgers. He deserves blame for not being able to function better without him.
He's the quarterback/offensive/play-calling guru. He didn't get it done with Harrell, Coleman and Young, and when push came to shove he didn't get it done with Seneca Wallace or Scott Tolzien, either.
Try as he might, McCarthy failed to win a game for a month. In that period, he couldn't rally the team the way some great coaches in similar straits have done over the decades.
It also would have helped if McCarthy could have counted on his special teams more when Rodgers wasn't around to outscore the opposition. Unlike coaches that have had to make do without a great quarterback, he never had to depend on his kicking game for field position and points.
Bill Walsh never seemed to care. If McCarthy really does care, you wouldn't know it by the performance of his special teams for much of his tenure.
As for the overriding problem of injuries, McCarthy either has the most fragile or the unluckiest team in the league. The Packers need to find tougher players from the standpoint of injuries (see Eddie Lacy), but I'm not sure McCarthy or any of his advisers have a clue how to do it.
The pipeline from Thompson to the defense has all but dried up after the draft-day trade for Clay Matthews in 2009. That has placed undue burden on Capers, but as someone regarded by many in football as a top-five to top-10 coordinator it's incumbent upon him to perform better than this.
In the last four years, the Packers have ranked 28th, 26th, 26th and 29th in yards allowed per rush. Stopping the run is the foundation for any defense.
After a one-year improvement, the total of missed tackles (127) was almost back to the 2011 level (140) that sent McCarthy on an off-season tirade.
Just when it seemed the Packers could never allow as many as the 85 plays of 20 yards or more that they did two years ago, they yielded 82.
The red-zone defensive ranking was in the 20s for the third straight year, and the points-off-takeaways totals the past two years were by far the two lowest of the McCarthy era.
So many evils on defense returned to Green Bay this season.
Capers, however, has owned Jay Cutler (8-1) and Matthew Stafford (6-1), and it's a critical feather in his cap.
In 2010, Rodgers performed well in the first and third playoff games and brilliantly in the second and fourth. His pelts forever are on the wall.
Since then, in four playoff games, he outplayed the aforementioned Webb (subbing last minute for the injured Ponder) in the only victory and was outplayed by Kaepernick twice and Eli Manning once in the three defeats.
Not once in those four games did the opposing coordinators all-out blitz Rodgers, and on a mere 12.3% of passes did they even pressure with five. Just as San Francisco's Vic Fangio did last Sunday, the way to subdue Rodgers in the postseason is to make him be patient.
After review, it could be said that Rodgers gave the Packers ordinary quarterback play in his last four playoff starts.
Rodgers accepted blame Tuesday, but the only thing that matters will be if he performs a whole lot better than ordinary if and when his team returns to the postseason.
In a league set up for quarterbacks to dominate, the Packers need Rodgers to dominate. By the same token, they need Thompson, McCarthy and Capers to step up their games.
Complacency can be insidious within a National Football League operation. The Packers should have nothing to be complacent about.
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Breaking Bread: 'Silver Palate Cookbook' changed the palate of America
In the spring of 1982, "The Silver Palate Cookbook" hit bookstore shelves with recipes that established a foundation for an emerging American cuisine.
The book, marking its 35th anniversary this year with more than 2.5 million copies sold, added products such as blueberry chutney and raspberry sauce to our food repertoire.
"The thing I really take credit for is arugula," said Julee Rosso, one of the two women behind the cookbook. "I made arugula happen in this country."
The magic created by "The Silver Palate" began with a chance friendship between Rosso, a single New York marketing executive, and Sheila Lukins, a married mother of two who had started a catering company out of her home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Lukins' business, the Other Woman Catering Company, was started with the idea of cooking for New York bachelors who wanted to entertain but needed someone to do the cooking. She and Rosso met after Rosso's boyfriend at the time hired Lukins for such a party.
Rosso, the businesswoman, and Lukins, the chef, partnered in 1977 to open a gourmet shop, the Silver Palate on Columbus Avenue, just a block from Lukins' home in the Dakota apartment building.
They sold prepared foods and eventually a line of products -- including jams, chutneys and sauces -- which helped pave the way for Dean and Deluca and other prominent gourmet shops that followed.
Just as Julia Child had taught Americans how to cook 15 years earlier, Lukins and Rosso helped launch the country on the road to a distinctly American cuisine: Big, bold flavors for a new generation of cooks.
Rosso, now 73 and living near Saugatuck, Michigan, recalled in a recent phone interview how the country, at the time, was just beginning to come out of the cake-mix-and-condensed-soup haze that had dominated American fare.
"It was a time when, if there was fresh dill at the market down the street, or even Italian parsley, it was a big deal," Rosso said. "Fresh ingredients just weren't around."
Formal dining always meant French cuisine, but the "Silver Palate" offered a new approach.
"I like a 'wow' when I taste something," said Rosso, explaining how the pair saturated their dishes with garlic, dill, lemon and other flavors to create boldness.
"We cooked with magnified flavors. A lot of those things weren't part of anyone's America repertoire."
She and Lukins embraced European flavors but set out to simplify the complicated style of French cooking that had dominated cuisine.
New Yorkers, it turned out, were ready for their food.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono, neighbors of Lukins' at the Dakota, became regular customers.
Once, during a snowstorm, Rosso recalled arriving at the Dakota to transport beef bourguignon from Lukins' apartment to the shop about a block away. Lennon was in the lobby and offered to help -- so together they toted beef bourguignon down Columbus Avenue in a snowstorm. Once they arrived, Lennon bought some of the dish to take back home to eat.
"He used to hang out at the store," recalled Rosso, noting that many customers failed to recognize the music legend. "He sat around and talked to people, and he could look pretty scrungy."
For months after Lennon's slaying in 1980, Rosso said, Ono would order pecan pie from the shop every day.
"At first, we thought, 'She's feeding that to guests who are stopping by,'" Rosso recalled. "Then we realized she was living on pecan pie."
The idea for a cookbook came about as a lark one day when Rosso and Lukins were hosting a tasting of some of their products: Raspberry sauce, mustards and chutneys, which became the first food items sold at Saks Fifth Avenue.
An editor from Vogue was there and suggested that they compile their recipes into a cookbook.
With Lukins kicking her under the table, Rosso lied and told her that one was already in the works. The editor, it turned out, also worked part time at Workman Publishing -- so she began pestering them for an outline.
"We had no idea how to write a cookbook," Rosso said. "We sat down with a bottle of scotch, drank the whole bottle (while working on it). That's terribly unorthodox, but that's how it came to be."
The book, too, was a bit unorthodox, with an emphasis on vegetables, bold seasonings and entertaining. The pages were decorated with Lukins' hand-drawn artwork because they couldn't afford professional photography.
Their families, Rosso said, worried that giving away the recipes would mean the end of the business. Instead, the book gave the store credibility and propelled sales of their products nationwide.
Rosso said she began to appreciate the book's impact only after an employee from Kansas City returned from a Mother's Day trip home to report that everyone there was serving dinner from the book.
"We were very, very lucky," Rosso said. "People were still discovering food in those days."
Two more "Silver Palate" cookbooks followed before the pair sold the business in 1986. The shop closed several years later, but the sauces continue to be sold under a different owner.
Lukins went on to become food editor of Parade magazine for 30 years and penned several more cookbooks of her own. She died in 2009 of brain cancer at age 66.
For the past 26 years, Rosso has operated the Wickwood Inn in Saugatuck on Lake Michigan.
Two years before Lukins' death, she and Rosso reunited to revise the original book for a 25th-anniversary edition.
Some considerable revisions were needed, Rosso noted, including a line that read: "There is no good bread in America."
The country's foodscape has changed considerably since 1982, with artisan bakers, cheesemakers and brewers in every state.
One dish that wasn't touched was the iconic Chicken Marbella, a recipe for marinated chicken roasted with prunes, capers, olives and garlic, which the pair created together on a whim, while Lukins was preparing for a dinner party at Rosso's boyfriend's apartment.
"It was on the menu from the very first day," Rosso said of the dish, which became the most famous.
With its party-size portioning, the Chicken Marbella is perfect for celebrating an important anniversary.
Recipe from The Silver Palate Cookbook (1982) by Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins
Makes 16 pieces
4 chickens (2 1/2 pounds each), quartered
1 head of garlic, peeled and finely pureed
1/4 cup dried oregano
Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/2 cup olive oil
1 cup pitted prunes
1/2 cup pitted Spanish green olives
1/2 cup capers with a bit of juice
6 bay leaves
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup fresh Italian (flat-leaf) parsley or fresh cilantro, finely chopped
In a large bowl, combine the chicken quarters, garlic, oregano, pepper and coarse salt, vinegar, olive oil, prunes, olives, capers and juice, bay leaves. Cover and let marinate, refrigerated, overnight.
Preheat the oven to 350.
Arrange the chicken in a single layer in one or two large, shallow baking pans and spoon the marinade over it evenly. Sprinkle the chicken pieces with brown sugar and pour white wine around them.
Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, basting frequently with the pan juices. Chicken is done when thigh pieces, pricked with a fork at their thickest, yield clear yellow (rather than pink) juice.
With a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken, prunes, olives, and capers to a serving platter. Moisten with a few spoonfuls of the pan juices and sprinkle generously with the parsley or cilantro. Pass the remaining pan juices in a sauceboat.
To serve Chicken Marbella cold, cool to room temperature in the cooking juices before transferring the pieces to a serving platter. If the chicken has been covered and refrigerated, reheat it in the juices, then allow it to come to room temperature before serving. Spoon some of the reserved juice over the chicken.
Editor's note: Chicken Marbella is intended as a party dish and the recipe was presented in quantities to serve 10 or more. The recipe is easily divided in two. When dividing, however, use the same amount of vinegar and oil for the marinade.
PER SERVING: 744 calories, 51 g protein, 21 g carbohydrates, 1 g fiber, 16 g sugars, 49 g fat (4 saturated), 216 mg cholesterol, 467 mg sodium.
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Paying Down Our Debt
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Scott Soucy believes you and I can pay down the 16 trillion dollar national debt voluntarily. 20 years in the Navy and Army have instilled in this nuclear engineer the acuity and perseverance to get the job done with unflinching enthusiasm in the face of snarling skeptics, including myself.
Your first and strongest argument against paying a dollar from every paycheck to the Bureau of the Public Debt in Parkersburg, W. Va. is well-placed mistrust. U.S. citizens paying off the 16 trillion dollar federal debt for our irresponsible congress critters is like giving a bottle of Jack Daniels and family car keys to your teenager. Who among us really believes we should free them from their duty to govern responsibly? Thus, the worst possible outcome of this endeavor would be the highly unlikely event of success.
Consider this: The plan is to pay off the debt of a spendthrift congress, primarily the Democratic Party, which lacks the competence to pass a budget crafted by its own President. Paying off the debt would reward not only that behavior, it would also reward the concept of solving our 1.3 trillion dollar annual deficit with a total of $56 billion by "taxing the rich."
The effort is not entirely without redeeming value. First, media attention to Scott's effort keeps the serious topic of entitlement reform and replacing spendthrift politicians in public conversation. Second, Scott represents the millions of Americans who don't require a free cell phone to secure their love of country. There are Americans who give thousands and even a million dollars to pay the debt. An estimated 7 million dollars was donated to pay off the debt last year. How much did that help? It paid only the interest on the debt for about a week.
Still, people like Scott represent the most well-meaning of us who just don't understand they are feeding the spending addiction of fearful, ignorant and/or miscreant politicians. They are people willing to "do something" when their politicians fail. They lead by example while congressmen and women send "newsletters" to constituents lauding the lard they send back home. They are the Americans who really need to run for office or use their talents to elect fiscally conservative citizens to congress.
The fiscal cliff and sequestration nonsense is a painful symptom of political profit over prudent policy. If "taxing the rich" and "bringing home the federal dollar bacon" while promising "free health insurance" and "free mortgages" gets one re-elected, it doesn't make sense to do the hard work of solving difficult fiscal problems.
There is another solution to the personal profit of political pandering. If one cannot stitch together a 20 or 30-year career with awesome retirement benefits from bilking an uninformed electorate, there's little attraction for these cretins to run. How might we remove the attraction? Term limits by constitutional amendment. It's been done for the Presidency for good reason and we now have good reason for Congress.
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Cherry Cornmeal Upside Down Cake
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There are some things in life I've learned I just can't resist.
Crisp, chewy, savory bacon (and I say this after not one, but several attempts to go vegetarian.) My dog, Tilly, when she's sad: her eyes are big and brown as chocolate covered cherries, rimmed with black like kohl eyeliner, with eyelashes that make me jealous. Filtered kitchen sunlight at 11 AM. Cinnamon rolls – fresh from the oven, speckled with fragrant spices and swirled with cream cheese glaze, melting into the swirl… how can you pass one up?
And farmer's markets. There's something about those white tents that makes me want to spend all day beneath them. There's serenity in the rich displays of fruits and vegetables, handmade bracelets and jewel-like jars of amber honey.
My favorite farmer's market – my favorite place in Seattle, even – is the famous Pike Place Market. I wrote an essay about it as my favorite place when I was in 2nd grade. I'd never seen anything so eclectic and teeming with creativity and fragrant with spices and flowers and fruit. Between the bundles of rainbow chard and displays of stained glass kaleidoscopes, I honestly thought the place was magic.
I loved the spice shop, stacked from floor to ceiling with glass jars of every tea, coffee, and spice you could think of. I'd carefully pull down a heavy jar with two hands, lift the lid with a little clink. Then I'd inhale the fragrant air blooming above it, utterly at peace.
And the gorgeous jelly and jam stand, which set out popsicle sticks to taste test all of their varieties. Among my favorites were blackberry lavender, raspberry chipotle, and rose – flavors which seemed to me so exotic and breathtaking, flowers blossoming on my tongue.
And the fish vendors around the market. Many people have heard about the famous stall that throws your order across the shop, but my dad and I prefer a smaller, quieter seafood vendor tucked near the heart of the market. I loved the brilliant rainbow sheen of fish scales, the long, fleshy tongues of geoduck clams, and especially the oily, smoky, irresistible smoked salmon samples I could never turn down.
Despite all the years, not much has changed, and Pike Place Market is still woven with an intangible magic. One morning, I had some thank you gifts I needed to deliver around Seattle. Dad and I left the house early, so we stopped at the market to kill some time. For one of the first times, we quickly found parking on the cobblestone street between tents. We drank coffee and people-watched, then we strolled between stalls.
The market was quieter than I'd ever seen it, still sleepy in the new day light. I could see shopkeepers and artisans arranging their products, setting up their stands, chatting easily with their neighbors. Street musicians warmed up and stretched, a vendor sipped tea as she arranged a bouquet of lilies just so.
"I really like this," I breathed to my father, nearly whispering so I wouldn't break the magic.
"What about it?"
"It's more than the produce and the products. They're all people."
It's yet another aspect of the market that I adore. It's easy to strike up conversation with the woman who grew the tomato you're sampling. I know exactly where these flowers once breathed, where they were picked and pressed, how far they traveled to get here. One man tells me about his technique and his tools as I try on the silver rose ring he forged with his fingertips.
Somehow I always end up striking conversation with the farmers and stall vendors, discussing everything from this season's plums to journalism in Boston to 17 and Baking. It's truly what makes the place special – the human connection there. It's really the one thing I can't resist.
Well… that, and samples. How can anyone stand in the midst of such rosy apples, beautifully crooked carrots, clusters of champagne grapes and not accept an offer to taste? My dad was amused at all the stops I made to try everything available, even the things that weren't ready. We both sampled sunset-hued Rainier cherries before we returned to the car.
"What do you think?" I asked.
"Oh, it's a little too early in cherry season. They aren't quite ready yet," Dad answered.
"That's what cherry cornmeal upside down cake is for."
The cherries are simmered in butter, brown sugar, and balsamic vinegar. The simple, thick cornmeal cake batter is spread right over them in the skillet and baked until golden brown. Flavorful, moist and coarse-crumbed, topped with glistening dark cherries like a jewelry box. Perhaps early cherries aren't so bad.
My mom bought a bag of glossy red cherries a little too soon – we are cherry people, and we are impatient. We tried eating a few, but they just weren't ready. Undeterred, I decided to make this cherry cornmeal upside down cake. Even with not-quite-amazing cherries, the cake was unusually good. I don't know if it was the touch of balsamic vinegar, which brought out the cherries' sweetness, or the cornmeal, which gave the cake the slightest of crunches. Whatever it was, this incredibly simple cake is a perfect summer dessert.
Cherry Cornmeal Upside Down Cake
Slightly adapted from Bon Appetit
Makes a 10" round, single layer cake
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature, divided
1/4 cup packed dark brown sugar
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
5 cups whole pitted fresh Bing cherries (about 20 oz unpitted cherries)
1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup yellow cornmeal
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
2 large eggs, separated
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup whole milk
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
Preheat the oven to 350ºF and center a rack in the oven.
Stir 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, brown sugar, and vinegar together in a 10" ovenproof skillet with 2" tall sides. Mix over medium heat until the butter melts and the sugar is dissolved, around 2 minutes. Turn the heat up to high, toss in the pitted cherries, and bring to a boil. Remove from heat.
Whisk together the flour, cornmeal, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Beat remaining 1/2 cup butter (1 stick) butter in an electric mixer. Add the sugar and beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, around 3 minutes. Add the egg yolks and vanilla, beat until combined. Add half the flour mixture, then half the milk, then the remaining flour mixture, and the remaining milk, beating until just combined after each addition.
In a clean, dry bowl with clean, dry beaters (or a whisk) beat egg whites until foamy. Beat in the cream of tartar until the whites are stiff but not dry. Stir 1/4 of the whites into the cornmeal batter, then fold the remaining whites with a rubber spatula in 3 additions. Spread the batter over the cherries in the skillet, covering them completely.
Bake until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Cool the cake in the skillet for 5 minutes, then run the spatula around the edges of the cake to loosen it. Set a large plate over the skillet and firmly flip the two together. Leave the upside-down skillet on top of the plate for 5 minutes so that the cake and cherries completely separate from the pan. Lift off the skillet and let the cake cool for 45 minutes before cutting.
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We are cherry people as well! At least my parents. Too bad that the cherry season is almost over here. The cake looks delicious and I would love to make it. I don't own a cherry pitter yet though, so I'll probably wait at least until I get some kind of a blood spatter lab, the kind that Dexter has.
Thanks for the great post! :)
I recall you talking about trading journals with your friend in Paris, it seemed as if you experienced different trips though you two were side by side. But I recall that day with you and it seems we experience it in such a similar way.
I love watching you delight in these things as I delight in them….and you. We have had some great moments you and I. Some big and life changing, some small and seemingly inconsequential, but that morning at Pikes, those precious moments with you are what my life is really about.
I used to think I would do and accomplish great things, by most standards I failed miserably and squandered a life. But every day I see you I know I did something that changed this world.
Don't stay in Boston too long….
Wow! That looks amazing!!!!!! I am definitely a cherry girl! What kind of camera do you use? Your photos are gorgeous!
Maybe one day you should put together a little book comprised of the comments from your father. He is such a thoughtful, tender man and his comments nearly always make me well up. A life not wasted one bit.
I made this cake last year and it's awesome! I actually consider it to be one of the best cakes I've ever made. I can't recommend it enough.
Holy cow, that looks AMAZING! Love the crunch of cornmeal with fruit. And cherries are my absolute favorite fruit–we go through at least a pound a day this time of year. Mmmm.
Hi there, just found your blog and I'm glad I did! Firstly, your writing is absolutely beautiful – I can imagine the fresh produce at the farmer's markets and you chatting happily with them. Farmer's markets are one of my favourite places to visit too! Also, this recipe is just fabulous and your photography is clear and professional. Well done at such a wonderful blog…will be back to explore again soon!
My husband and I lived close to Seattle for 2 years. We lived in Redmond. We loved going to Pike Place. I especially love the little ladies that make the bundle of flowers and wrap them in white paper. I miss that market….it is such a wonderful place! Thanks for bringing all of my memories back to life with your wonderful descriptions of the market. Your recipe looks fantastic! I love cherries too. Every summer I can't wait for cherry season! It is my absolute favorite fruit!
I love your writing, you manage to capture things so beautifully. The timing of this is quite funny as well, my mother suggested last night that I write about our farmers market, though it sounds like it's a lot smaller than the seattle ones.
Would this work in a cake pan?
We don't have an oven, just a combination microwave so a skillet wouldn't fit.
I love it when I load my email account and there is a new 17 and Baking post waiting to be read. I always save that email until the end, so I can savor every word you have written and every photograph you have taken.
My family and I were visiting Seattle yesterday, and my parents stopped by Pike's Place. How I wish I had gone with them, so I could have experienced everything you wrote about!
"Fragrant air blooming above it."
By far my favorite line from your posts (which is difficult because you paint such beautiful pictures with words)
Former student of Ms. J M who posted your blog on her facebook. Congratulations!
If I could find cherries in my part of the world I would make this…..until then I'll just have to stare longingly at my screen. I love cornmeal cakes and this one is stunning
This cake looks great will have to make it sometime.
I love reading your recipes and stories! You are an amazing writer. A friend told me about your blog and I am so glad she did- it is a treat to read about your adventures!
I've been following your blog for a while now and though it's out of character for me to leave comments on the blogs enjoy, I feel compelled to tell you that I think you are a wonderful writer.
First you lured me in with your beautifufl pictures and then captivated me with your heartfelt words.
I go to your blog and a few others for weekly inspiration to keep me excited about trying new recipes and cooking for my family. (I made those egg rolls two days ago and they were a hit!)
Also, the comment(s) your father leaves for you literally bring me to tears in a very very good way.
I know you will do great in all your endeavors as you are talented and intellegent and you seem to have a big heart. I'm glad you "feel" things the way you do. The world needs more people like you!
Hi Elissa,
Here in South Africa, we don't get cornmeal as you call it in the U.S. We have a version called mielie meal, which (from what wikipedia says) is sort of like cornmeal but is made from white maize instead of yellow maize. Do you think this will work for this cake? If I try it I will let you know – will have to wait though, cherry season here only starts late November.
(p.s. I'm moving to Boston to study too! Only from much further away and only in August 2011)
How nice to meet you, Elissa.
I'm 17, so only one year younger. I love baking too, that's why I'm here. I would be very happy if you could visit me as I;m doing my first steps in blogging.
I haven't done any cake with cornmeal. But that looks sooo delicious..
Just wanted to point out that you don't list milk in the ingredients list.
Elissa, I love your writing and I love the pictures! This looks delicious and definitely makes me want some unripe cherries now.
Wow; I just discovered your blog and I have to say that I am mightily impressed with both your culinary skills and your writing ability. What do you plan to study in school?
Not bad at all! I've been even been to Cali, but now the Pike Place Market is high on my list of places to go. It sounds enchanting, and due to no small part to the lovely cake you wove from its fruits.
First of all, that looks looks really good. Cherries are already awesome, but you've made them that much more delectable, kudos :)
Secondly, I've visited Seattle and the Pike Place Market quite a few times (live in Sequim, so it's a trip) and I have to say you're SO lucky to live near there! I look forward to reading more of your recipes.
I love the cherry/cornmeal cake combination! Your photos are making me hungry, I'm wishing my kitchen wasn't packed in boxes moving across the country! I hope I can find cherries when I get all unpacked!
Your blog looks great and that cherry upside down cake. We'll have to try that one.
What an incredible dessert. This looks like a magnificent summer treat! Great job, Elissa.
I just found your blog! Your cake looks great. I can't believe you're only 18. I didn't start cooking until after college. :)
A family friend of mine loves Pike's Place. Your description of it and food makes my mouth water.
I am a cherry person as well! Your pictures are absolutely gorgeous. I do have to say that looking through your blog was a real inspiration to me to start my own, and I just wanted to say thank you!
Ciao Elisa!!!
It's a pleasure reading your recipes, where I find great passion for the atmosphere, the motivations for ingredients, fruits, way of baking, history!
It's so strange…on the other part of the worl, an old housewife has the same interests!
Compliments !!!
i miss my pike place market! your cake looks amazing!
"I know exactly where these flowers once breathed, where they were picked and pressed, how far they traveled to get here."
I somehow stumbled upon your blog, and I'm glad I did! I echo everyone else when I say that your pictures are stunning and you have a gift with words. Your prose is so poetic and evocative. Your readers can really get the sense of how much you love food!
Best of luck in college! My obsession with baking deepened during my time away from home, so there's hope that you can keep up your blog and find a way to cook even without your beloved Kitchenaid. Hopefully you'll find friends with an apartment who will let you borrow their kitchen now and then. I've never had anyone refuse a good meal/good baked goods (just as long as you clean up after yourself!)
I love cranberries and I love cornmeal cakes! This looks delicious!
I'm having a craving for cherries now! Looks great!
Mmmm, sounds and looks divine! Yum!
Yummy! I'm a cherry person but not a cherry cake person but after seeing your pictures has me changing my mind. The cherry and the cornmeal seem to complement each other perfectly! Now next time of go to the farmers market I'm sure to pick up some cherries to make this delicious pie! Thank you for your writing.
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NEWTON, Mass. - Massachusetts police responding to reports of teenagers tossing eggs at a house last month got quite a surprise when they tracked down the suspects.
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YREKA – "Collaboration" was the buzzword at the Siskiyou County Behavioral Health Services building in Yreka on Jan. 10 when the county board of supervisors and county-wide public service agency representatives assembled to accomplish one thing – work collectively and pool resources to improve the services available to all county residents.
The workshop, titled "Re-Visioning Siskiyou County – Partnering for Meaningful Change," was facilitated by Karen Ponder, an early childhood development expert who has facilitated community partnerships that have achieved results in her North Carolina home state.
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District 3 Supervisor Michael Kobseff noted that this workshop marked the first time that the supervisors, First 5 representatives and the Community Services Council came together to address collaboration.
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Ponder addressed the importance of inclusion in successful collaboration and a willingness to change the way business is conducted in order to get better results in the future.
In looking at some of the problems facing Siskiyou County public service agencies, all of which operate on limited funding, several attendees pointed out that duplication of programs is among one of the major issues they would like to address in order to maximize resources in the county.
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District 4 Supervisor Grace Bennett said it is imperative that local agencies evaluate their "gaps" in services in order to communicate those gaps to other agencies to get them filled.
Kobseff suggested that the board of supervisors meet twice a year with First 5 and Community Services Council representatives to set reasonable goals toward maximizing resources.
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DAKOTA REPORT: The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has scheduled an examination to select candidates for the position of district game warden. The test is at 10 a.m., July 15, at the department's main office in Bismarck
by Doug Leier
I'm years removed from the high school and college decisions and contemplating schools, majors or possible career paths. And I don't really miss it.
Truth is I never wrote down on paper I wanted to be a private lands biologist in Stanley, a game warden in Bottineau or an outreach biologist in West Fargo, but those have been the highlights of my career to this point.
I was, however, drawn to the general field of biology or natural resource management. But even if I had written down an exact place and position, there's only a few dozen game wardens and four outreach biologists in North Dakota so, it's doubtful I'd have predicted the future correctly even a few years down the road, let alone a few decades.
Even now when asked by students, parents and others about the natural resources or conservation field, one of my first bits of advice is not to set goals too narrow. Don't simply hold out for a job as a bighorn sheep biologist (there's one) or an aquatic nuisance species biologist (one as well), or you'll most likely be disappointed.
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While those odds were a bit depressing, I also knew someone had to be the one, and I sure understood the odds were zero if I didn't even apply and take the exam. So here's an opportunity for all interested.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has scheduled an examination to select candidates for the position of district game warden. The test is at 10 a.m., July 15, at the department's main office in Bismarck.
Applicants must register to take the exam by submitting a letter of intent to chief game warden Robert Timian at the Bismarck headquarters by 5 p.m. July 12.
You might be surprised how open the Department is to accepting applicants with these requirements:
- must be least 21 years of age
- have a bachelor's degree
- current North Dakota peace officer license, or eligibility for a license
- valid driver's license
- must not have a record of any felony convictions.
Yes a degree in biology or background and understanding of criminal justice is advantageous, but it's not required to start the process. Excellent interpersonal skills in communications and writing helps as well.
There is no cookie-cutter formula for becoming a game warden. The best advice I can give is if you've ever thought about it, or you know someone who has ever thought about it, now is the time to move the thoughts into action.
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Selection procedures following the test may include an evaluation of the application, a structured oral interview, background and reference checks, and psychological and medical examinations.
There's no guarantee to anyone taking the first step in the process, but it is certain that without taking a chance on that first step, you'll never know where the career path could have taken you.
Visit the Game and Fish website at gf.nd.gov for more information.
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Word Hy-phen-a-tion By Com-pu-ter
April 24, 2009
In 1982, Frank Liang published in his doctoral dissertation a description of the hyphenation algorithm that he invented for Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting program; his algorithm is the basis of most of the hyphenation programs used today. Liang's algorithm is described in Appendix H of The TeXbook by Knuth. Liang's algorithm never inserts a hyphen where one does not belong, but does miss some opportunities to insert hyphens where they do belong; Liang claims to find 95% of the hyphens in most texts. Liang's algorithm is quick, and reasonably stingy with space.
Liang's method works by pre-computing a list of hyphenating and inhibiting patterns based on a given hyphenation dictionary. First, a list of hyphenating patterns is established; for instance,
-tion and
c-c are good hyphenating patterns. But all the patterns have exceptions; for instance, the
-tion pattern improperly hyphenates the word
cat-ion. Thus, a set of inhibiting patterns prevents hypenations; in this case, the inhibition pattern
.ca=t (the dot indicates the beginning or end of a word, the equal-sign inhibits a hyphen) overrides the hyphenation pattern and prevents the hyphen at
ca-tion. Of course, there are exceptions to the inhibition patterns; Liang's algorithm goes five levels deep — hyphenation, inhibition, hyphenation, inhibition, hyphenation — to get a good set of patterns, and even then requires an exception listing to fix a few words that would otherwise be hyphenated incorrectly. It is also required that a word must have a least five letters to be hyphenated, no hyphens can be inserted after the first letter or before the last letter of a word, and any word that includes non-alphabetic characters is never hyphenated.
Consider this example of hyphenating the word hyphenation: there are two hyphenating patterns
1na and
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2io, and
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1na pattern originally placed a hyphen at
hyphe-nation, but the
he2n pattern inhibited the hyphen, because rule 2 trumps rule 1; likewise,
hena4 inhibited
1tio. Note that three patterns start at the fourth letter of hyphenation:
hena4, and
Liang's hyphenation algorithm iterates through the letters of the input word, identifying all the patterns that are present in the word, and takes the maximum rule at each position. The task of identifying the patterns calls for some sort of search algorithm; Liang used a trie that he cleverly packed into an array.
Finally, Liang's dissertation described a program patgen for pre-computing the hyphenating and inhibiting rules, for English or any other language, given a hyphenating dictionary. See his dissertation for details. The original lists of patterns and exceptions used by Liang for TeX 82 are shown on the next page.
Your task is to write a function that takes an input word and returns a list of suitable hyphenation points. When you are finished, you can read or run a suggested solution, or post your solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.


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